略论宋美龄1948年华盛顿之旅

On Madame Chiang Kai-shek's Trip to Washington in 1948

徐蚌会战伊始,宋美龄立即前往美国寻求紧急援助;宋美龄这次出访活动的主要策略是,重点对马歇尔国务卿进行私人公关,企图首先说服马歇尔,然后通过马歇尔打破中美外交僵局,为蒋介石和国民党政府争取即时的政治支持和进一步的军事援助,以便鼓舞国民党军斗志并稳定国统区民心。由于杜鲁门政府一致认识到国民党政府大势已去,且病入膏肓,因此不再愿意积极涉入中国内战事务,由此决定了蒋夫人再度访美的使命无果而终。

As the Campaign in Xuzhou-Bengbu areas began, Madame Chiang started to visit the United States to appeal for further immediate aids; Madame Chiang＇ s tactics was to visit and persuade Secretary Marshall first, and then to break the diplomatic deadlock between China and America through General Marshall so as to appeal for further immediate political support and military aid for Chiang Kai-shek and his National Government in the hope that the morale of National Army could be aroused and the people living in the National-ruled areas stabilized. Nevertheless, as Truman＇ s Administration had unamiously recognized that the Nationalist Government was in a hopeless situation and was beyond cure, no one in Washington was willing to get actively involved in the Chinese Civil War, thus Madame Chiang＇ s mission ended up a failure.